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If you want to support old IEs, IE8 seems somewhat pointless as many applications that really require compatibility with unsupported IE versions have to support
by dfox 9y ago
If you want to support old IEs, IE8 seems somewhat pointless as many applications that really require compatibility with unsupported IE versions have to support whatever is in Windows CE images on installed base of various thin clients, which means IE5 or 6.
- ng12 9y agoI'm (very unfortunately) an expert in this area. By the numbers IE8 is a must if you want to support your site globally. I've only recently managed to deprecated IE7, but IE5 and IE6 are negligible.
- dfox 9y agoI'm not talking about public facing websites, but internal applications. For public facing websites graceful degradation is at least for me acceptable and it is not that hard to build site that gracefully degrades and is still usable in browser that does not support JS and CSS at all.
- ng12 9y agoIf it were me, I would quit if our IT department still supported IE8. This package was developed for JD.com which is a site where supporting IE8 makes a lot of sense.
- rpedela 9y agoI am curious why is that the case? Organizations afraid to upgrade? People in developing countries using outdated OSes? Some other reason?